It kills me inside’: Activists sound alarm on climate anxiety
From Bangladesh to Britain to Nigeria, many young campaigners on the frontlines of the global fight for climate justice now face a new problem: the impact the crisis is having…
Climate crisis
In the run-up to COP26, much of the conversation has dealt with predictions about the future and forthcoming pledges for more decisive action: carbon neutral by 2030, net zero by…
Resilience in a riskier world
Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries can never let down their guard. The Covid-19 pandemic, with its epicentre…
Disaster risk resilience: key to protecting vulnerable communities
The past five years have been the hottest on record in Asia and the Pacific. Unprecedented heatwaves have swept across our region, cascading into slow onset disasters such as drought.…
The gathering storm
A HIGHLY negative recurring theme in the history of Pakistan is that good events don’t last long. In fact, their length is getting shorter with time. For instance, Musharraf’s spurious…
For the future
Record fires in Oregon and California. Floods in Houston and New York. Deadly winter storms in Texas. Droughts across much of the west. Flash floods in England and Germany. Blinding…
Profiting off war
Newspaper commentary is full of coverage of how the US and its Nato allies have lost the Afghan war. There is very little mention of how the military-industrial complex of…
Code red
Due to our climate emergency, we are leaving an increasingly hostile climate to our children and grand-children. Last week, UNICEF reported how one billion children are already at “extremely high…
Our parting blow
IT would be tricky to designate the starting point of the subcontinent’s second partition. The seeds, it could be argued, were sown during the late 1940s and fertilised through much…
‘Missing’ threat
THE national security dialogue last week renewed hope that finally Pakistan plans to focus on its own issues and rising internal non-traditional threats. Included in the agenda were climate change,…
